Podcasts

ha ha I was going to bring up RU Talking REM as a podcast that takes banter to its furthest limit

xpost - have you done Mike’s history of rome?

xxpost Two I've enjoyed since they both started have been Tides of History (and its predecessor The Fall of Rome) and The Age of Napoleon.

Wittenberg to Westphalia, Literature and History, Inward Empire, The Human Circus, The Constant, When Diplomacy Fails are good

Clearly my position is the minority opinion.

Nope. The 'shooting the shit inside jokes harhar amirite fellers' intros to lots of podcasts put me off, too. (and the laughter, sooo much laughter that it just so off-putting).

99% of the people are a drag to listen to. This was the case before podcasts arrived, and has not changed.

yes listened to History of Rome last summer, really excellent stuff! I also read his book The Storm Before The Storm which is good but is lacking the jokes/wit. It probably wouldn't have worked very well on the page so I can understand why he left that stuff out, but it makes the book more dry as a result.
thanks Ned, Tides of History/Fall of Rome looks like exactly the sort of thing I am looking for.

just random people bullshitting for 10mins like we are interested in their friendly banter

― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, October 22, 2019 11:47 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

random guy says ouch

Fwiw I'd bullshit for 10mins with u Hadrian

(I just wouldn't want to record/cast it)

Age of Napoleon is swell, similar vibe to Revolutions imo

LBI I am free most evenings but wearing a wire

thanks Ned, Tides of History/Fall of Rome looks like exactly the sort of thing I am looking for.

The original Fall of Rome series was just him and it's a classic 'dude with a mic' approach, some flubbed bits in the edit, etc. But Wyman knows his stuff and it built a following -- he had a Deadspin series (of all things) going at the time, I think through the Concourse specifically -- and it got smoother as it went, then it transformed into Tides and he started working with a production team. He does pretty good interviews as well; a number of recent episodes are just that, talking with a variety of academics and writers.

Age of Napoleon is swell, similar vibe to Revolutions imo

I'll have to keep that in mind! But yeah, it's been an absolutely essential example of living up to the title -- while Bonaparte is the focus, he did an extensive job in scene-setting even before introducing him, and all the various side divergences and explorations have been amazing. Very glad I was all in from the first episode.

LBI I am free most evenings but wearing a wire

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, October 22, 2019 7:17 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Hot! 555-999-LBI *winks*

I like Tides Of History but it has the Wondery problem of ad overload

A lot of podcasts do. I just mentally tune out.

I can't get through a single R U Talking About REM episode. Those guys are the worst. Maybe someone will edit the jokes and banter out and just keep the information.

The guitarist’s name is Peter Dollar Bill, and the band once appeared on Party Of Five. There, you now have 100% of the informational content.

the singer is michael stipend

dammit I guess I’d better relisten to them all to catch important details I’ve forgotten

They also answered how it feels when you're in REM

Feels good!

My friend reco’d the RU-REM2 podcast & I listened to about 10 minutes ... then I tried to skip the bullshit and banter & ffwd myself to the good bits ... and I never found the good bits.

Did you listen to one with a guest on? You'd get to find out when they first heard of R.E.M.

OooooooooooooooOOOOoooh! Hold me back!

I listened to a comedy podcast and was mad that it wasnt an informative podcast about music

I’ve been listening to Hollywood Handbook for years and have not heard one piece of actionable advice!

I’d love to hear Scott and Scott do a Radiohead podcast where they never get around to discussing the band and then read the angry iTunes reviews from fans and ilxors

where Colin is "Jonny Greenwood's brother" and Jonny is "Colin Greenwood's brother"? I would be into this.

Singer is Tom Radiohead

R U talking Radiohead in the vicinity of my head?

I'm pretty sure at one point they briefly discuss what other bands they could discuss after they are done and the one other band they found that they were both really into at one point was radiohead, so they will probably do that, just probably with an even worse title.

"Radio 'Head, I've got two smokies on my back door and I'm comin in hot"

If On A Winter’s Night A Radiohead Podcast

Narrator of a big budget investigative podcast pic.twitter.com/I25zlGzYSI

— cancela lansbury (@gossipbabies) September 26, 2019

Prof Tad Delay’s new book “Against” on American Evangelical culture brings a lot of Marx, Freud, and Lacan to it and how it lines up with a lot of the real fashy parts of capitalism.

He made a series of short episodes summarizing his book that I think you’ll dig:

https://podtail.com/en/podcast/tad-delay/

Our latest episode is up! More Tom Bombadil than you can shake a stick at.

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/8

Ned also on the new Hit Parade episode
https://slate.com/podcasts/hit-parade/2019/11/the-cure-depeche-mode-the-smiths-new-order-genre

I get around. Anyway, our own latest -- magic? You got it.

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/9

I feel like this is the real-life Hollywood Handbook:
https://www.earwolf.com/show/homophilia/

Our tenth episode is live!

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/10

might give this a go as i'm currently up to date with by-the-bywater and ALABseries:

Listening to "Chapter 1: "Loomings"" at https://t.co/bxSSp4EfvK

— Talia Lavin (@chick_in_kiev) January 23, 2020

Honestly, at this point I'm less bothered by "everyone has a podcast now!" than I am by how every marginally successful podcast has to turn into a "podcast empire" or "podcast network" that churns out 20 hours of content a week and spends 10 minutes per episode shaming fans about the content they are missing by NOT HEARING IT ALL RIGHT NOW.

I mean, kudos to folks like Maron that just keep doing their thing without seeing success as a license to keep expanding.

We just keep it simple and note that we're part of a network (which is very small anyway, and we're glad to be part of it -- helped immensely on the basic publicity/art front alone).

I like all the knockoff podcasts now: "Ladies Drinking Wine and Talking about Stalkers!"

xpost - It's not the idea of networks that turn me off, I think folks like Osiris and other networks are doing really good work in helping to distribute great podcasts. It's more stuff like Earwolf and Maximum Fun that feel increasingly insular and cross-referential that drive me kinda crazy. We can blame Kevin Smith for this one and his whole Smodcast empire, which I think was the first one that was really egregious about this kind of thing.

Episode 11 up!

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/11

it's old now but this ep of THIS WEEK IN ATROCITY accurately foretold the fall of michael avenetti in hilarious (depressingly hilarious) detail: https://soundcloud.com/user-695156563/053-jerry-lundegaards-basta

(feat.charles star then also of the late lamented mic dicta, but less chaotic than mic dicta often was)

Google Podcasts currently driving me crazy, podcasts that I know exist are no longer searchable no matter what I try (unless they are suddenly not on Google Podcasts anymore, but still on other services, which I guess is possible). Also recent UI updates have made the most commonly used functions (hitting play on a new episode, mark as played, remove download) either smaller targets or moved to a less accessible drop-down.

unless they are suddenly not on Google Podcasts anymore, but still on other services, which I guess is possible

the BBC and Radio France pulled their podcasts from Google about a year ago and no doubt others have too. it has to do with Google linking directly to the audio files from search results and bypassing those providers’ own apps.

google should just by stitcher, wondery etc and corner the podcast market. i don't think the DOJ would care, those guys haven't even heard of podcasts

Part of me hopes all these podcast networks get bought by warring content providers and go behind paywalls so don’t feel like I need to keep listening to so many fucking shows